ANTH 23 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Will Kymlicka, Polyethnicity, Nationstates
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Anth 23 lecture 3 group rights: alternative to eurocentrism or recipe for. Sole focus on individual rights undermines the culture and self-governance of minority communities. Ethnic groups should have varying degrees of group rights. Attempts to reconcile with liberal political theory that tends to focus on individuals: liberal political theory: tradition on which democracy is founded. Nation-states originally homogenous: same ethnicity, language, culture. Gellner: developed in industrial societies, urbanizing populations distanced from traditional ties of family, clan, hometown, religion. Benedict anderson: imaged community", arose when mass media and markets standardized language and worldviews to tie people together. Kymlicka: originated in imitation of homogenous ancient greek city-states. No nation is really as homogenous as theories suggest: diversity often appears as a problem. Ethnolinguanymic state: independent country whose official name (in english) incorporates the name of its dominant official language, which is spoken as a first language to more than half of the population.
